CVE-2026-89671 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.84.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCE-21170112
  • published17 Oct 2026
  • disclosed16 Oct 2026

Introduced: 16 Oct 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150700.53.84.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: gate nfs3 setacl by argp->mask

nfsd3_proc_setacl() calls set_posix_acl() unconditionally for both ACL_TYPE_ACCESS and ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, passing argp->acl_access and argp->acl_default verbatim. The NFSv3 ACL decoder only populates those pointers when the corresponding mask bit is set:

nfs3svc_decode_setaclargs()
  if (args-&gt;mask &amp; NFS_ACL)    decode into acl_access
  if (args-&gt;mask &amp; NFS_DFACL)  decode into acl_default
  /* otherwise the pointer stays NULL (pc_argzero) */

nfsd3_proc_setacl() set_posix_acl(.., ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, argp-&gt;acl_access) set_posix_acl(.., ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, argp-&gt;acl_default)

set_posix_acl(idmap, dentry, type, NULL) is the VFS "remove this ACL type" operation. A NULL pointer that means "the client did not send this arm" is therefore indistinguishable from "the client asked to remove this ACL". A SETACL with mask=NFS_ACL silently drops the directory's default ACL; mask=0 drops both.

The sibling nfsd3_proc_getacl() already consults argp->mask before touching each arm; mirror that in setacl.

Fix by wrapping each set_posix_acl() call in the matching mask bit check and initializing error to 0 before inode_lock so that a request with neither bit set leaves the on-disk ACLs untouched and returns nfs_ok. The out_drop_lock path and the unconditional posix_acl_release() at out: are preserved; both NULL-tolerate the skipped arms.

CVSS Base Scores

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